Yours truly, the TTABlogger, will be heading down to our Nation's Capital for the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) in Washington, D.C. (Register here). ...
Today in In re Efthymiopoulos, __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Prost, C.J.), in an otherwise legally unimportant case, the panel affirmed an obviousness rejection of claims to a method of ...
The Board dismissed this consolidated opposition to registration of the marks MILEWISE and ALLSTATE MILEWISE for insurance services,based on claims of likelihood of confusion with opposers' family of WISE-formative marks. ...
The Board sustained pro se opposer Jeanette K. Daniels's opposition to registration of the markPROGENEALOGISTS under Section 2(f), finding that the mark lacked acquired distinctiveness. Because the mark is "highly ...
The USPTO refused to register the mark MERSIN, in the design form shown below, for cheese, garnish, and pastry products, without a disclaimer of the word MERSIN, on the ground ...
The CAFC upheld the TTAB's affirmance [TTABlogged here] of a refusal to register the mark shown below, comprising about 600 words, for, inter alia, cartoon prints, paper dolls, and coloring ...
By my estimation, somewhere around 80-85% of all Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusals that reach the TTAB are affirmed on appeal. Well, here are four appeals that were recently decided. ...
Cartier International opposed an application to register the mark TRINITY for leather handbags, alleging a likelihood of confusion with the identical mark registered for jewelry. The marks are identical, but ...
Today in Apple, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir 2016)(en banc)(Moore, J.), amidst 107 pages of slip opinions with separate dissenting opinions from each of ...
Amended TTAB Rules Published in Federal Register today. Go here for link and for chart summarizing changes: https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/trademark-trial-and-appeal-board-ttab.html